winterfest

The WinterFest Auction 2024 will go live on Saturday, February 3, 2024 at https://www.auctria.com/auction/Q300PTAWINTERFEST2024. The WinterFest Auction features a list of summer camp and experience prizes. Register at http://auctria.events/Q300PTAWINTERFEST2024 to bid on these amazing prizes! Please feel free to share the site with friends and neighbors as anyone can bid.…

Updated on Thursday, January 25, 2024 There are still a few spots available if for Winter Fest on Saturday, February 3, 2024. Register at https://bit.ly/3S5EdqA We are still accepting applications to the K-8 Multicultural Performance too. Sign up at https://bit.ly/3OgQIi6 Q300 and Q300 PTA are hosting Winterfest to showcase the…

We are excited to announce that our WinterFest Auction is back and will go live on Friday, Feb 3, 2023. The WinterFest Auction features a list of summer camp and experience prizes. Register at https://auctria.events/Q300PTAWinter2023 to bid on these amazing prizes and share the site with friends and neighbors as…

The Q300 Winter Fest International Potluck will take place on Friday, February 3rd at 5:30 pm at the Lower Division Campus. This is a lovely school-wide event where everyone brings dishes from all over the world. Each grade organizes a cultural craft/activity table, and we raffle off some great prizes.…

The Q300 PTA has hosted an amazing Winter International Potluck and Festival every year since its inception (except of course in 20-21 and 21-22). In fact, our last one was in January 2020 before the lockdown struck. This is a lovely community event where typically everyone brings dishes from all…

In lieu of the International Winter Potluck, where we usually get to celebrate all of our diverse heritages by enjoying traditional cultural dishes and folkloric craft-making activities, the Q300 PTA is planning a series of family-friendly virtual sessions to bring the celebration into your home. These will be ongoing throughout…

We are excited to announce that our WinterFest Auction 2020 is now live! The WinterFest Auction features mostly summer camp prizes. Register as a bidder at https://charityauction.bid/Q300PTAWinter2020, bid on these amazing prizes, and share the site with friends and neighbors as anyone can bid. Get a great deal on a summer camp or our other prizes while you support our PTA. Just make sure to bid before the auction closes on Wednesday, February 12th at 10pm. Please share the URL with neighborhood groups and on social media after you’ve placed your own bids!

Sample Auction Items

• Camp Half-Blood in Central Park
• Pierce Day Camp
• Shibley Day Camp
• Industry Gymnastics, NY
• Chess Academy
• Steve and Kate’s
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• Date: Friday, January 31, 2020
• Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
• Place: Q300 Lower Division campus (28-37 29th St, Astoria, NY 11102)

Our 6th annual Winter International Potluck and Festival will be on Friday, January 31st at the Elementary School Campus from 6:00pm-8:00pm. This is a school wide event! K-8 extravaganza!  This is a lovely community event where every brings dishes from all over the world!

• Food, Attendance, and Volunteer. To RSVP, let us know the type of dish you will be bringing, or sign up to help with the event (craft table, Costco run, etc…), please click the following link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b4aa9ac22a6f94-q3005
• Prizes for Auction. We will also be raffling and silent auctioning a few prizes. We are looking in particular for camp prizes though welcome others. If you can donate or can solicit a donation, please fill out the Winter Festival Auction Donation Form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-Zt8e8MXPaBFcOU25tmZb6pcb0vS8bZDP_SYJTtvqUJAvbw/viewform. See below for more information about the auction prizes.
• Grade Tables. We’re asking that each class (up to 2 per grade) plan an appropriate activity that can be set up and run at a table during the event. You can put together anything—a craft, a coloring activity, origami. Last year we even had a parent set up a chopsticks station where children were able to experiment with picking up different items, like legos and marbles! If you are interested and helping to organize this for your child’s grade, please reach out to your class parent or the LD (Barbara Monroe or Christina Lee) and UD (Sae Makino-Siller and Milena Ivanova) representatives!

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• Date: Friday, January 25th, 2019
• Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
• Place: PS17 campus (28-37 29th St, Astoria, NY 11102)

Our 5th annual Winter International Potluck and Festival will be on Friday, January 25th at the Elementary School Campus from 6:30-8 pm.  This is a school wide event! K-8 extravaganza!  This is a lovely community event where every brings dishes from all over the world!

We also have craft tables, activities, and raffle and auction prizes while eating great food.  This event is a tradition and was the FIRST EVER Q300 school-wide event (originally in November 2014) and we will be celebrating our 5th year as a school!

There will be items raffled and auctioned at the event (restaurants, toys, gift cards, etc…) but the emphasis on the camp prizes (which will launch before the event).  Please help us get great prizes!  We already have some which are listed below!  Winter Festival Prize Form

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Check out the summer camp opportunities in this year's Winter Auction! Now through March 1st Got your Summer day camps nailed down? Does your kid love mythology?  Soccer?  Gymnastics?  Coding?  There are several summer camp opportunities related to these themes (as well as a Pennsylvania Farm House rental) that are…